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(Reuters) - A former top attorney for President George W. Bush was charged in Connecticut on Thursday with attempted murder after he allegedly attacked his wife with a long flashlight.
John Michael Farren, 57, of New Canaan, was arrested after police received a panic alarm from his home shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, local media reported.
Mary Farren, 43, a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, suffered a broken jaw, facial fractures and lacerations to the back of her head from the attack.
She had delivered divorce papers earlier this week, according to the arrest affidavit.
Farren was named a deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel to the president in 2007, according to his White House biography. He served as an undersecretary at the Commerce Department during the George H. W. Bush administration.
Mary Farren's attorney Andrew Bowman described the attack as "brutal."
"She is terrified of him, and we ask that as many restrictions be placed upon him as possible," he told the local Greenwich Time newspaper.
Farren was ordered held on a $2 million bond and scheduled to appear on January 21 in state Superior Court in Stamford.
(Reporting by Ros Krasny; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Philip Barbara)
John Michael Farren, 57, of New Canaan, was arrested after police received a panic alarm from his home shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, local media reported.
Mary Farren, 43, a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, suffered a broken jaw, facial fractures and lacerations to the back of her head from the attack.
She had delivered divorce papers earlier this week, according to the arrest affidavit.
Farren was named a deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel to the president in 2007, according to his White House biography. He served as an undersecretary at the Commerce Department during the George H. W. Bush administration.
Mary Farren's attorney Andrew Bowman described the attack as "brutal."
"She is terrified of him, and we ask that as many restrictions be placed upon him as possible," he told the local Greenwich Time newspaper.
Farren was ordered held on a $2 million bond and scheduled to appear on January 21 in state Superior Court in Stamford.
(Reporting by Ros Krasny; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Philip Barbara)
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